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I'm Munir, a Lead Engineer in Sydney. I write about resilient systems, delivering safely with AI in regulated environments, and leading the engineers who do both. If you only have a few minutes, start with these.

If you read oneHuman-in-the-loop is not a security boundary

Two AI agents deleted production databases. Neither was stopped by its instructions. Approval improves an agent's decisions; it doesn't limit what the agent can do. Why agent safety is a permissions and architecture problem first, how to size the risk of an action, and what humans are actually for.

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Resilient systems

Most of my best engineering work starts with one question: what happens when this goes wrong?

Safe AI delivery

Using AI agents where mistakes are expensive: what to delegate, what to keep, and what stops an agent when it’s wrong.

Engineering leadership

Decisions, trade-offs and the part of the job that isn’t code.

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